--- Guillaume Proux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Regarding using looking-alike glyphs (in certain
> fonts) security
> issues, wouldn't it be a good thing for any project
> anyway to have a
> number of pre-conditions for any given contribution
> to a given project
> to be cleared. On of such litmus tests would be like
> the following.
> try:
> codecs.open("contributedfile.py","r","ascii")
> print("contribution accepted")
> except UnicodeDecodeError:
> print("contribution rejected. evil non-ascii
> characters lurking
> in your source. ")
>
Yep. Pychecker and automated unit tests could also
protect against bugs or holes caused by bad encodings
or typos (whether malicious or accidental).
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